On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 7:20 PM Alan McDonald <a...@meta.com.au> wrote: > Sounds more like you upgrade machine is getting RF feedback. Software lockups > are often the case in these instances.
That is not the case, as this same setup has been working fine for years in this location with the same equipment, and the only thing new is the software upgrades - perhaps I was vague in that, the upgrades in question were the OS to macOS 15.1.1 and WSJT-X to 2.7.0-rc7. On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 9:45 PM Adrian via wsjt-devel <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On 5/12/24 12:04, Gary McDuffie via wsjt-devel wrote: > > Probably not related to your problem at all, but why would you change > > frequency to match theirs? That is not preferred procedure and hasn’t been > > since a few years ago. Find a clear frequency, put your transmitter there > > (left click on waterfall) and call your station. Lock your transmitter > > frequency (Hold TX Freq check-box) You don’t need to move, and neither > > does he. > Well said Gary, Many forget that they are always listening/looking on > their TX frequency besides the rest in the 3KHz or so RX passband. > Just because you do not see/hear a signal at a certain pan point does > not mean you are not receiving there. > If you were not receiving there, then you would not hear the signal > there when it arrives, like waiting for a radio station broadcast, while > quiet static sounds, > or the the guy waiting for a wave that is still 'surfing' My speaker is > off in FT8, I never listen to it. Thanks for the input. I've been running FT8 since it first came out and am no stranger to how it works. I also was responding to someone else's CQ when these people called me, and I was pretty sure that the program would still have me transmit at the same frequency where I'd last been, which since I was responding to someone's CQ was on the frequency where they were. I've long wished that answering a tailgunner would move my transmit to their transmit, since if they're transmitting on a clear spot then they should be able to hear me there too, but even in this version I saw when I double clicked the calling station my receive jumped to them but transmit stayed put, forcing me to quickly halt TX so as not to step on my last QSO's next caller. That would be rude of me to just continue on with other QSOs on the frequency where they had been running, thus I wanted to move off. Yes, I could find a clear spot, lock my transmit there, and do everything from that area, but it's not often if ever that I see others do things that way but instead they respond to CQs on the frequency of the caller. While I see it mentioned in the manual that "To avoid QRM from competing callers, it is usually best to answer a CQ on a different frequency from that of the CQing station. The same is true when you tail-end another QSO. Choose a Tx frequency that appears to be not in use. You might want to check the box Hold Tx Freq." I have rarely seen that in most QSOs on the waterfall over the years, only when it's a rare station or one with a pile-up - and I definitely take advantage of finding a clear spot and staying put then. Regardless of that issue, the lock-up I experienced should not happen, and I'm not even sure it was due to changing frequencies on the waterfall anyway and may have happened even if I was locked to a single location. -- Steve Huston, W2SRH - https://srhuston.net “And no one sings me lullabies, and no one makes me close my eyes, and so I throw the windows wide and call to you across the sky.” - Pink Floyd, “Echoes” _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
